April 19th 2018 08:00 PM - April 20th 2018 01:00 AM

YOUNG GALAXY

YOUNG GALAXY

Montreal’s electro-pop duo Young Galaxy have announced the upcoming releaseof their first fully independent, “punk spirit” album. Down Time stories YoungGalaxy’s shift into complete independence and positions the band as acountercultural beacon during the current climate of isolation, corruption and

despair.

Showcasing the band’s new independence is lead single, “Under My Wing”, thetrack intentionally blurs what listeners have come to expect from the band.Musically it’s cloudy and swirling, the lyrics obscured, almost unintelligible bydesign. As the band puts it, “it’s a song that sleeps during the day and walks theempty streets at night. It’s about the failure of capitalism, the isolation of suburbia,and the drive to discover sensuality, connection, and a spark of life in the face of

despair.”

Young Galaxy began writing Down Time with a sense of reinvention in mind. Inorder to stay ahead of the ever-shifting landscape of the music industry, the bandfelt the need to step away from the industry entirely and take stock of and controlover their career. Tired of the industry’s exploitative, conservative nature, the bandstarted their own label in an effort to create a sense of community, and to stay trueto an ethos of experimentalism and independence. Young Galaxy’s Catherine

McCandless says:

“Beginning to write and record is always a question of seeking the headspace thatwill manifest the life that we want to live – it feels essential that we get up againstwhat feels most valuable to us: love, art, subversion, risk and vulnerability. Thoseare the tools of the work of writing for us. In immersing ourselves in a kind of dailylabour that brings about questions of whether we’ve gone far enough, left outenough, left bare enough, said too much, sweated enough, bled enough, I think weare putting out into the world powers and vulnerabilities that could be thebalm, or even antidote to it. The music industry needs it, politics need it, peopleneed it. It’s love and sex and comfort and blood and unity amongst seekers on theoutside of what seems to be an absurd and lonely state of normalcy currently.”Young Galaxy’s reverence for love and art are the driving forces behind each oftheir albums, and it’s from this perspective that Stephen Ramsay and CatherineMcCandless decided to attack the subjects of late period capitalism, the rise ofnationalism and neoliberalism on Down Time. The album is full of images ofsatellite towns, ring roads, empty halls, shuttered windows, abandoned trainstations, suburban decay – of existences without prospects. In juxtaposition to that,there is sensuality and longing at the heart of the record. Themes of transgression,and desire are explored. Despite the challenging nature of our day to day lives,

passion and inspiration are never far from the surface.

Like it’s title, the music of Down Time is ambiguous enough to evoke the desire torelax and find peace, as well as images of struggle and darkness.

***This show is all ages***

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YOUNG GALAXY

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Montreal’s electro-pop duo Young Galaxy have announced the upcoming releaseof their first fully independent, “punk spirit” album. Down Time stories YoungGalaxy’s shift into complete independence and positions the band as acountercultural beacon during the current climate of isolation, corruption and

despair.

Showcasing the band’s new independence is lead single, “Under My Wing”, thetrack intentionally blurs what listeners have come to expect from the band.Musically it’s cloudy and swirling, the lyrics obscured, almost unintelligible bydesign. As the band puts it, “it’s a song that sleeps during the day and walks theempty streets at night. It’s about the failure of capitalism, the isolation of suburbia,and the drive to discover sensuality, connection, and a spark of life in the face of

despair.”

Young Galaxy began writing Down Time with a sense of reinvention in mind. Inorder to stay ahead of the ever-shifting landscape of the music industry, the bandfelt the need to step away from the industry entirely and take stock of and controlover their career. Tired of the industry’s exploitative, conservative nature, the bandstarted their own label in an effort to create a sense of community, and to stay trueto an ethos of experimentalism and independence. Young Galaxy’s Catherine

McCandless says:

“Beginning to write and record is always a question of seeking the headspace thatwill manifest the life that we want to live – it feels essential that we get up againstwhat feels most valuable to us: love, art, subversion, risk and vulnerability. Thoseare the tools of the work of writing for us. In immersing ourselves in a kind of dailylabour that brings about questions of whether we’ve gone far enough, left outenough, left bare enough, said too much, sweated enough, bled enough, I think weare putting out into the world powers and vulnerabilities that could be thebalm, or even antidote to it. The music industry needs it, politics need it, peopleneed it. It’s love and sex and comfort and blood and unity amongst seekers on theoutside of what seems to be an absurd and lonely state of normalcy currently.”Young Galaxy’s reverence for love and art are the driving forces behind each oftheir albums, and it’s from this perspective that Stephen Ramsay and CatherineMcCandless decided to attack the subjects of late period capitalism, the rise ofnationalism and neoliberalism on Down Time. The album is full of images ofsatellite towns, ring roads, empty halls, shuttered windows, abandoned trainstations, suburban decay – of existences without prospects. In juxtaposition to that,there is sensuality and longing at the heart of the record. Themes of transgression,and desire are explored. Despite the challenging nature of our day to day lives,

passion and inspiration are never far from the surface.

Like it’s title, the music of Down Time is ambiguous enough to evoke the desire torelax and find peace, as well as images of struggle and darkness.

***This show is all ages***

Montreal’s electro-pop duo Young Galaxy have announced the upcoming releaseof their first fully independent, “punk spirit” album. Down Time stories YoungGalaxy’s shift into complete independence and positions the band as acountercultural beacon during the current climate of isolation, corruption and

despair.

Showcasing the band’s new independence is lead single, “Under My Wing”, thetrack intentionally blurs what listeners have come to expect from the band.Musically it’s cloudy and swirling, the lyrics obscured, almost unintelligible bydesign. As the band puts it, “it’s a song that sleeps during the day and walks theempty streets at night. It’s about the failure of capitalism, the isolation of suburbia,and the drive to discover sensuality, connection, and a spark of life in the face of

despair.”

Young Galaxy began writing Down Time with a sense of reinvention in mind. Inorder to stay ahead of the ever-shifting landscape of the music industry, the bandfelt the need to step away from the industry entirely and take stock of and controlover their career. Tired of the industry’s exploitative, conservative nature, the bandstarted their own label in an effort to create a sense of community, and to stay trueto an ethos of experimentalism and independence. Young Galaxy’s Catherine

McCandless says:

“Beginning to write and record is always a question of seeking the headspace thatwill manifest the life that we want to live – it feels essential that we get up againstwhat feels most valuable to us: love, art, subversion, risk and vulnerability. Thoseare the tools of the work of writing for us. In immersing ourselves in a kind of dailylabour that brings about questions of whether we’ve gone far enough, left outenough, left bare enough, said too much, sweated enough, bled enough, I think weare putting out into the world powers and vulnerabilities that could be thebalm, or even antidote to it. The music industry needs it, politics need it, peopleneed it. It’s love and sex and comfort and blood and unity amongst seekers on theoutside of what seems to be an absurd and lonely state of normalcy currently.”Young Galaxy’s reverence for love and art are the driving forces behind each oftheir albums, and it’s from this perspective that Stephen Ramsay and CatherineMcCandless decided to attack the subjects of late period capitalism, the rise ofnationalism and neoliberalism on Down Time. The album is full of images ofsatellite towns, ring roads, empty halls, shuttered windows, abandoned trainstations, suburban decay – of existences without prospects. In juxtaposition to that,there is sensuality and longing at the heart of the record. Themes of transgression,and desire are explored. Despite the challenging nature of our day to day lives,

passion and inspiration are never far from the surface.

Like it’s title, the music of Down Time is ambiguous enough to evoke the desire torelax and find peace, as well as images of struggle and darkness.

***This show is all ages***

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The Casbah

The Casbah (located at the corners of King St West & Queen St North in the Central Neighbourhood of downtown Hamilton Ontario) opened it’s doors in January 2001. The debut event was none other than Seminal Pixies frontman Frank Black and his band the Catholics. The sold out concert was presented by the venue, and in association with a new local promoter who would one day become a more significant component to the Casbah as a live music club.